‘We were bored of traditional fantasy cliches’: inside Playground Games’ 10-year effort to revive Fable

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• MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “and that is why we took on a series that is 95% fantasy tropes by volume”

  Yeah that’s not gonna be insufferable at all.

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• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not.

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  • Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Im not, but also Im not tired of non-traditional fantasy. I love fantasy of most shapes

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• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The original Fable did clichés well, though. Like the player is descended from the royal line of Albion, but it’s so buried in vague hints that you need to read a bunch of lore to find out. It never matters to the story or gameplay, it’s just a cool background fact.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Am I bored of cliches? Not really. Thankfully there are people who get bored with cliches. This gives us variety and new ideas to explore, even if we are not bored of it.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sometimes subverting the cliche becomes the cliche to stop repeating.

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• ne0n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Usually the sort of phrase that precedes a lot of overhyped bad ideas that happen to be popular in game design circles and nowhere else.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, it’s fair to say it’s a gamble. We just often remember the successes. Team Fortress was known as an intense Quake-style game, and there were some reactions at the time of the TF2 trailer that Valve had lost the sauce. Bioshock followed the future cybernetic style of System Shock. Prey went from native Americans and aliens to being a child predator. wait, might’ve misremembered the last one.

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• Lootboblin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve only played Fable 2 and 3 and the thing that I liked the most was the marriage/family and upgrading systems. And your wife would get mad if you didn’t support the family enough or were cheating around.

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• cenariodantesco@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t want to sound like a bigot, and I liked almost everything I’ve seen from the game so far. The one thing that is stick like a light in the dark to me is the model walking animation. It looks like it’s the same for genders, and it feels very off putting, again, it’s only my 2 yens

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